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Four Song Offerings (2020)
I: The Boat; II: He Comes!; III: The Stream of Life; IV: The Lotus
Eatock, Colin
The composer writes: Rabindranath Tagore's Song Offerings are the poet's own English-language translations of his Bengali-language Gitanjali. While Tagore's translations are not exactly literal, they present to the Western world a window … Read More
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The composer writes: Rabindranath Tagore's Song Offerings are the poet's own English-language translations of his Bengali-language Gitanjali. While Tagore's translations are not exactly literal, they present to the Western world a window into the tradition of Hindu devotional poetry. (Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize for literature for the collection.)
The four excerpts I have chosen to set to music, love and beauty are recurring themes, richly elaborated with images from nature. But as with many of the poems in Gitanjali: Song Offerings, the "love" and "beauty" can be interpreted as either worldly or spiritual.